Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Geoffrey Dyer & Lauren Eggert-Crowe

The Poetic Research Bureau @ The Public School
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

Geoffrey
Dyer is the author of The Dirty Halo of Everything (Krupskaya, 2003).
His poems and prose have been published in Fourteen Hills, Parthenon
West Review, Double Room, Involuntary Vision: After Akira Kurosawa's
Dreams, Bay Poetics, Sand Canyon Review, Mirage/Periodical, and other
literary journals. Geoffrey received his MFA in Creative Writing from
Mills College in 2003 after earning his Bachelor's from The University
of California at Santa Cruz. He currently teaches creative writing,
literature, and composition at Taft College where he is faculty adviser to the student-edited literary publication A Sharp Piece of Awesome.

Lauren
Eggert-Crowe's writing has appeared in Salon, The Rumpus, Diagram,
Interrupture, and Sixth Finch, among others. She is the author of two
poetry chapbooks: The Exhibit and In the Songbird Laboratory.

Upper Limit Los Angeles

About the Bureau

The Poetic Research Bureau is a valise fiction and portable literary service in Northeast Los Angeles.

As an out-of-pocket California milk-crate boosterist enterprise, it serves as the irregular literary umbrella for projects such as Ara Shirinyan's house of concept & constraint, Make Now Press; occasional poetry journal The Germ ('97-'05), edited by Andrew Maxwell and Macgregor Card; and art-lit mag Area Sneaks, edited by Rita Gonzalez and Joseph Mosconi.

As a research bloc, the PRB attempts to cultivate composition, publication and distribution strategies that enlarge the public domain. It favors appropriations, impersonations, 'compost' poetries, belated conversations, unprintable jokes and doodles, 'unoriginal' literature, historical thefts and pastiche. The publication emphasis is on ephemeral works, short-run magazines and folios, short-lived reprints and excerpts in print-on-demand formats, and the occasional literary fetish objects of stupidly incomparable price and value.

The Bureau also hosts a reading series at 951 Chung King Rd in Chinatown, and invites writers whose work lacks the 'commercial tendency' while harboring the bright, high-minded intentions that often lead to broad panic, righteous perversions, improbable arguments, and the ill-served cul-de-sacs of genius. The series is programmed by the aforementioned Messrs Maxwell, Mosconi and Shirinyan. If you're sympatico, passing through town, or need a megaphone, 50 seats and a big blank space, give us a write.